Though the right to protest is an essential part of free speech, we should not tolerate the increasingly upcoming undemocratic features in the EU which mostly hide under the cloak of suppression of terrorism.

Now we talk about the World Bank, IMF, and accountability, all that and the EU.

Farmsubsidy.org is an initiative that lobbies for access to information about government farm subsidies across the European Union.

Well in the Netherlands, we have an innovative Minister of Agriculture, and she puts the insects on the menu in her restaurant in her ministry.

France, Spain, and Poland have attempted to keep major industries firmly in national hands. Suddenly, the single European market is forgotten, and a return to fragmented markets is taking root.

Even though several media outlets have already reported about this networked surveillance technology, only few EU citizens know what it is supposed to be.

Dear activists for the protection of privacy, dear people from all over the European Union, dear mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters.

It is thus also a challenge to those of us living in more fortunate circumstances. If we do not wish to be submerged in violence and authoritarian responses to it, international institutions must do for the modernizing world what the EU has managed to do for the postcommunist countries.